Well, we have made it back to our delightful home. Our pets, Penny, the Yorkie, and Pooka, the black cat who prefers to think of us as unwelcome boarders, are both fine.
We have resumed work and are trying to get back into the swing of things.
One nice thing is that we now have our regular-sized coffee pot, where we can have good coffee in regular mugs and even have a second or, heaven forbid, a third cup. That, after weeks of living off of those little hotel-room coffee makers which I think all come from the same factory, in some country that apparently forbids the drinking of coffee.
We have resumed work and are trying to get back into the swing of things.
One nice thing is that we now have our regular-sized coffee pot, where we can have good coffee in regular mugs and even have a second or, heaven forbid, a third cup. That, after weeks of living off of those little hotel-room coffee makers which I think all come from the same factory, in some country that apparently forbids the drinking of coffee.
They have designed a "coffee" maker which no matter what the location or type of hotel does exactly the same thing:
1. Fill up glass container, pour into maker while dripping water all over the counter, table, chest, sink.
2. After much effort, manage to "open" the plastic bag containing the "coffee" grounds, usually tearing the little bag which holds the grounds, so that they will seep into the glass container.
3. Try to force the glass container under the plastic ground-holder thingee, so that the water will hit the broken ground baggie correctly and leak down into the glass container.
4. Try to figure out how to make the red "on" light go "on", usually involving resetting the plug, is it the red button or the black one which resets?
5. Wait while the "coffee" maker hisses and moans its way through the process.
6. Once completed, pull out the glass container filled with "brown".
7. Notice that it wasn't completed, as "brown" continues to leak onto hot plate.
8. Either repeat step 3 or just say to hell with it.
9. Pour one and a half cups of coffee (at most) while dripping "brown" over the counter, table, chest, sink.
10. Drink "brown" and think about going out for coffee.
1. Fill up glass container, pour into maker while dripping water all over the counter, table, chest, sink.
2. After much effort, manage to "open" the plastic bag containing the "coffee" grounds, usually tearing the little bag which holds the grounds, so that they will seep into the glass container.
3. Try to force the glass container under the plastic ground-holder thingee, so that the water will hit the broken ground baggie correctly and leak down into the glass container.
4. Try to figure out how to make the red "on" light go "on", usually involving resetting the plug, is it the red button or the black one which resets?
5. Wait while the "coffee" maker hisses and moans its way through the process.
6. Once completed, pull out the glass container filled with "brown".
7. Notice that it wasn't completed, as "brown" continues to leak onto hot plate.
8. Either repeat step 3 or just say to hell with it.
9. Pour one and a half cups of coffee (at most) while dripping "brown" over the counter, table, chest, sink.
10. Drink "brown" and think about going out for coffee.
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